Public Safety Projects:
Tucson Police Department Forensic Crime Laboratory Westside Police Service Center Fire Central Headquarters and Fire Station No. 1 Northwest Fire District Fire Station #33 City of Tucson Evidence, Property and Identification Center Green Valley Fire District Station #151 Northwest Fire District Station #39 Green Valley Fire District Station #155 Tucson Fire Department Station #22 Tucson Fire Maintenance Santa Cruz Police Substation Tucson Fire Department Stations #20 & #21 Three Points Fire Station #91 Mountain Vista Fire Station No. 620Tucson Police Department Forensic Crime Laboratory
Client: City of TucsonContractor: D.L. Withers
Location: Tucson, Arizona
Size: 59,000 SF
Completed: September 2011
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2012 Merit Award Winner for "Best Of" Government/Public Buildings in Arizona/Nevada/New Mexico - ENR-Southwest Contractor. 2012 Finalist for Metropolitan Pima Alliance Common Ground Award for collaboration. Featured in Interior Design Magazine - Sustainability is a best practice. Article:
Online Exclusive - Sustainability as a best practice
The new Crime Laboratory is located adjacent to the existing Westside Police Service Center. Other police facilities are expected to share the site in the future, so a master planning component was necessary to appropriately site the building. The site design uses concepts established by the existing police substation, including staggered site walls and a grouping of palm trees at building entrances. The new building is two stories tall and 65,000 square feet. It maintains a clean, crisp modern palette with polished masonry, aluminum composite panels, and curtain wall on the exterior skin. It houses the Crime Lab Administration, Quality Assurance, Trace Chemicals, Arson, Explosives, Drugs, Evidence Control, Firearms (including a firing range), Forensic Biology, Latent Fingerprints, Toxicology, and the Forensic Electronic Media Unit. Each group has dedicated laboratory space on the north side of the building and office space on the south side.
Click here to watch KGUN 9 news coverage of the new Crime Lab.
Online Exclusive - Sustainability as a best practice
The new Crime Laboratory is located adjacent to the existing Westside Police Service Center. Other police facilities are expected to share the site in the future, so a master planning component was necessary to appropriately site the building. The site design uses concepts established by the existing police substation, including staggered site walls and a grouping of palm trees at building entrances. The new building is two stories tall and 65,000 square feet. It maintains a clean, crisp modern palette with polished masonry, aluminum composite panels, and curtain wall on the exterior skin. It houses the Crime Lab Administration, Quality Assurance, Trace Chemicals, Arson, Explosives, Drugs, Evidence Control, Firearms (including a firing range), Forensic Biology, Latent Fingerprints, Toxicology, and the Forensic Electronic Media Unit. Each group has dedicated laboratory space on the north side of the building and office space on the south side.
Click here to watch KGUN 9 news coverage of the new Crime Lab.